m21 Tasks on 12th October 2007
The first Friday workshop for designing Avatars that would operate as virtual coordinators
This was a successful day!
- Anette led a very productive workshop meeting with Hannah, Julia, Batel and John W (John B joined us briefly at the end)
How can we design to synergise team membership?
- At present, the wiki puts us partially in touch with current activities (see above illustration)
- This is thanks to the sterling efforts of Jonny. The next question.....can we go further?
- YES...by offering a user-interface that is more intuitive, responsive and anthropomorphic
A First step: by creating appropriate team-type Avatars
- At some point we may merge JohnW's comments with Jonny's advice
- All of the 4 (original) human team coordinators collaborated (2 virtually, 2 in person)
Outcomes
- In order to write a design brief for 4 distinctive/mutually complementary avatars
we made maps of their semantic qualities:
- Anette will upload her photos to the wiki
- We may ask Mathilda if she would kindly develop 3 more Avatars, based on her beautiful prototype
- All of the above turned into these avatar workshop outputs
- JW suggested we work with a friendly graphic design company to develop the 4 animated logos
- And/but .... (comments/suggestions why not wiki them on this page please)
- One possibility is the company Pretty
- who were once Goldsmiths design students
- One of the directors (Toby Stokes) created this screen font Tiresias